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Originally Posted by polak
Neither the Germans or the Russians segregated the Poles.
Also Europe is different in that there are so many more ethnic groups and they all disagree (not as much anymore though) on what land belongs to who as empires have come on gone throughout the history of the region. For example Poland could argue that half the stupid continent is "theirs" because at one point, that is how wide their empire reached.
Europe is definitely a different beast.
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More to the point regardless of who was or is in control of what in europe there are no indigenous visible minorities, there are Polish Germans, Polish Poles and Polish Russians who all look and sound the same, any German Pole or Russian can and will be virtually indistiguishable with the others within a generation or so of being taken over, their cultures are all close enough that this can be acheived with little loss of 'self'.
As another poster has sugested the Irish would be a better example although even there the vast majority of Irish and English get along fine and I doubt an Irish computor tech in London would worry about being turned down for a job because of his accent or visa versa in Dublin ( I will grant that there might be an individual that might turn down an applicant but I'd guess it would be more likely the english guy in Dublin getting screwed than the other way around these days).